On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:22:07 -0400, Jonathan Goodish
wrote in
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Couldn't care less about DUATS for weather,

I find it to often contain information the FSS briefer doesn't brief.

I just hope they don't make us wait on hold to talk to a briefer to file IFR.
Right now, a couple clicks and it's done.

Ah. Therein may lie the motivation for ceding operation of DUATS to
Lockheed-Martin; because DUATS flight plans are not input into the
system by FSS employees, but computers, perhaps there is a financial
incentive issue at the root of the rumored consolidation of DUATS
operations.

Either that, or they'll offer the online "service" for a "subscription
fee."

I don't think the FAA has actually been granted the authority to
charge a fee for flight plans, yet.